Sorry
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It is a reasonable claim that fences are necessary to keep one’s property designated, separated and protected. To me, fences are symbols of mistrust. We don’t trust our neighbors, other nations, other people in general. In Toronto, there is a stretch of 300 meters of chicken wire fence, which separates the rail tracks and Dundas Street West. For decades, “trusting” trees and bushes, used to branch out, unaware of notions of ownership or separation, and kept crossing this arbitrary boundary from both sides of the fence. Despite being perennially trimmed by the City’s workers, many of the branches and trunks got permanently fused with the wires. On 4th of May 2013, I dressed the cut-off tips of about twenty of these amputated tree-limbs with gauze.

Action art
Title: SORRY…
Location – The Junction, Toronto, Canada
Date: May 4th 2013